Rosedale

In the 1970s, white residents of the Rosedale neighborhood in Queens were fighting integration. On November 5, 1975 the Federal Government took direct civil rights action, specifically barring Rosedale residents from “threatening, intimidating, or otherwise interfering” with African Americans seeking homes in the neighborhood. It was the first time such an action was taken under the Fair Housing Act of 1968.
This video reveals an important and largely forgotten story of housing discrimination, placing Queens at the center of the history of racism and civil rights in America. This is not the well-worn story of Jim Crow segregation in Alabama or activism in Harlem. The video weaves together scenes from Lorraine Hansberry’s Raisin in the Sun performed by LaGuardia Community College students, oral histories conducted by LaGuardia Community College students with senior citizens who lived in Rosedale during integration, and footage from a Bill Moyers’ Journal (1976) on Rosedale, to reveal an equally ugly and violent story of discrimination in the North, rooted in housing, property value, and economic security.

[@iKneeWaifu]

I’ve been living in Rosedale for 21 years for now and I love how multi cultural it got in 2018 from watching this movie

[@journeytothemosthigh5021]

I totally agree with the woman in the blue suit...Laurelton got better as many of my neighbors including us did major home improvement projects. Our block association was a force to be reckoned with and kept a lot of the negative influences, including the ugliness of what was going on in Rosedale out of Laurelton.

[@beauty4u132]

Lauralton is one of my favorite neighborhoods, and a best kept secret. I was a Banker at Chase on Merrick. Beautiful Homes, and people.

[@beauty4u132]

@Amor Ankh this is facts. I remember the NY Times article.

[@dominicjames7493]

Can someone get Shaun King to find the upstanding white ppl that were making those lovely chants?

[@rachellawrence1521]

A news station tried to contact the whites on the video but they didn't respond. Must be ashamed now.

[@ericponce8740]

@@rachellawrence1521 They are either dead (mainly the adults) or the children who became adults are hiding from their past.

[@Cocoginger100]

@@ericponce8740 that's what I said

[@Cocoginger100]

@@rachellawrence1521 they said that people didn't respond. Of course they found the kids but they are ashamed for their parents and themselves 😂. We need to start laughing at that.

[@adroutt1985]

Just a small dose of how powerful we are as black people

[@leonardsmith703]

It goes to show you that New York's separate but still not equal always existed.It wasn't just the south

[@rickshur]

kind of incredible...but, sadly, not totally incredible

[@thatguyfrom313]

Only if our people wanted to stay separated and live amongst ourselves and built a our own communities

[@beauty4u132]

We did, they burned it down, or kept us from buying with redlining mortgages. They kept resources from us. That's why we had to fight and pass the Fair Housing laws. And still it was this BS.

[@faustuskrauss6457]

The Black women who moved into the White neighborhood were gagging when their neighborhood turned “Black”.

[@dorisleyba5916]

.....now, 2017, its a must to buy the block, not only by euroamericans, by ALL peoples new and old, color no longer is the segregation tool, class is. Welcome to the Trump era, where its the same as back then.....but with a class twist. Homelessness in NYC is just 1 missed payment away. My opinion as a New Yorker all my life. :(

[@woodyferrari1718]

Flushing was the only intergrated neighborhood in Queens at that time..but the Asians took over now..lol

[@Most_godmylan]

They still hear .ant nothing changed

[@sophiadavenport3959]

People make too many assumptions about a person's character not everyone you meet are racist and hate you open your mind.

[@marisutton334]

@Allison Edwards 💯

[@quentinkirk3870]

Is The Lady in The Blue Dress The Young Lady Who Spoke So Eloquently In 1976? She Sounds like Her

[@roderickstockdale1678]

No but she’s in the New York Times video which catches up with the black kids.

[@gussiewilliams7712]

They had the nerve to call us violet when they were terrorists bombing because they are afraid of the other race...

[@Joliboi8]

Freeport Long Island...

[@THTDCTR]

Whites will panick - omggggg

[@Cocoginger100]

That's what FEAR does 🤣

[@tasniaislam3951]

The sad fact is that these white adults are still alive today and when the news reached out to them to hear their opinion of the matter now, they don’t return the call. 🤣🤣

[@faustuskrauss6457]

No true! The vast majority of them have passed . But why does that matter how the white adults feel anyway?

[@tasniaislam3951]

@@faustuskrauss6457 well they are either super old or nearing death. It matters still because they can still vote. And these adults pass on that racist mindset onto their childrens and pass it through generation.

[@faustuskrauss6457]

@@tasniaislam3951 If anyone would had reached out, hope they used a Ouija Board. They are dead now! They can’t vote anymore but You can! That’s what matters. Logically you make no sense.

[@tasniaislam3951]

@@faustuskrauss6457 wow you sound like an ignorant racist! Maybe you were one of them.

[@vatricegeorge]

​@@faustuskrauss6457is true. They called white people who are living who lived during this terrorism and they chose not to participate.